Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

12.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

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The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.